Steve McNamara backs Sam Burgess for successful switch

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Burgess scored a superb individual try against New Zealand in the World Cup semi-final at WembleyMarc Aspland

Sport Staff

Last updated at 12:02PM, February 7 2014

Steve McNamara, England’s rugby league head coach, believes Sam Burgess would
be a success should he switch codes to union.

Bath are favourites to lure the 25-year-old England star to the Aviva
Premiership in a deal which, it has been claimed, could be part-funded by
the RFU.

South Sydney Rabbitohs, Burgess’s Australian club, and the RFU have played
down the speculation but it is thought a deal will go through if Bath are
prepared to meet the asking price of around £500,000 for the former Bradford
forward who is still under contract to the end of 2016.